Evening Star Newspaper, November 16, 1932, Page 8

. A8 R ;TI-'IE EVENING STA WASHINGTON, D. C. WEDNBESDAY . November 16, 1932 e THEODORE W. NOYES.... Editor the British and Prench notes asking for ¢onferences to discuss the debts further in view of the present economic situa- tion, see what good could come out of & further suspension of the debt pay- ments. If the British, Prench and other debtor nations are looking to this coun- try to relieve them further of these ob- s ‘ l\uén’: Office: ligations, the sentiment in Congress is i yary Othee: fl“,"E&“".,:.",". clearly sgainst the consummation of fl:“"fi&’;.-""u g R wk their hopes. The American viewpoint s anand. i that a remission of these debts— e alteady lowered greatly to meet the g: m‘.{ Star :s.e' u‘?‘-’h«. appeals of the debtors—would work & ing 4nd 8, hardship on the American people. That 80¢ menth e Evening. wnd Buidiy BaF giie ey | the crux of the matter, in the opinion s By B O P Ser copy | of the American legislators. They are Collection made ¢ e enid of eaeh MO, | unwilling to take the burden of the in- fiuonu 5000. debtedness from the shoulders of the Mail—Pa; in Advance | foreign taxpayers and place it on the - .I‘fimfl :::”;Imnu. backs of tze Americans, particularly in ..1yr., $10.00; 1mo., 85¢ | 135, '36.00: 1mo. 50c ily and Sunday. F [1yr. $4.00: imo. 40c ily only inday only . ey | | tes and Canada. ! . S“) . l:: %: : mg . fl‘rfi | 3%, $5.00; 1mo. 80c | | jay only . Joo e Al welusively entitled lated Press is e | e Avee for republication of all news dis- per and new: Ifill&e&h%:!r:r All rights of uubllu'.lfle"‘, Special dispatches herein are also reser Frapce's Complicated Plan. One thing is certain about the new Prench disarmament plan—the Paris government could not possibly have expected that it can be beaten into & reality within the measurable future. It is complex and complicated. Based frankly and squarely upon France’s de- | mand for security—security first, last and all the time—it subordinates to that cardinal French requirement the general goal of disarmament. Both | British and German comment on the | scheme which M. Herriot has just sub- | mitted at Geneva stresses this aspect of it. German comment, which is definitely hostile, contends outright that the French have projected nothing but # revival, in sugar-coated form, of an old plan to preserve their own military and political predominance on the Con- tinent of Europe. Besides, according to Berlin, the program leaves Wholly ungratified Germany's unylelding de- mand for arms equality. M. Herrlot and his coadjutors make an undisguised bid for American sup- port by proposing to vitalize and “im- plement” the Briand-Kellogg anti-war pact. They would make something | more than implicit in it—which Sec- retary Stimson has said is implicit— the obligation on the part of the pact signatories to consult with a view to common action in case of a breach of the peace. The suggested amplifica- tion of the pact of most direct interest to the United States is the proposal that all signatories would join in an economic boycott against an aggressor mation. A blanket agreement to that effect on America's part would be tantamount to s surrender in advance of the United States’ persistent and traditional de- wotion to the principle of the 'freedom of the seas. If the United States re- Tused to mortgage its independence of g %0 & “world force,” to be flung against an aggressor in certain contingencies, an idea lkely to find favor in the United States. This particular sug- gestion does not differ except in detail from the Tardleu plan for a League of which was sprung at the opening of the Geneva Conference last February, and which has been gathering dust among the archives of the impractica- ble ever since Even in France, according to expres- sions in the Paris press, M. Herrlot's disarmament and security plan meets with a critical reception. It is pilloried #s “academic,” and, therefore, beyond the pale of practical politics. It is assailed, too, because it threatens to| dethrone the whole military caste from the proud place it has occupied throughout European centuries. One quaint French thrust at the plan is that it is “too finished in its logical development.” Altogether, it is paine fully plain that much water must flow beneath the bridges of the Seine, the | Thames, the Tiber and the Spree before | the French specifications for “the or- | ganization of peace” can hope for reali- | mation, A celebrated French soldier, eommenting on & brilliant but fatal eavalry charge, exclaimed: “It is mag- | nificent, but it is .not war.” European | commentators, for the most part, sur- wey the Prench disarmament plan and chorus: *“It is marvelous, but it is not peace.” | Many hard-headed Americans, lm-i‘ paticnt with the quibblings, the inces- | sant rivalries and suspicions, and the stallings of Europe, wonder why lheJ ©Old World, if it means business on dis- | armament, does not come honestly to grips with the Hoover plan. That plan | i8 clean-cut, categorical and equitable to all. It projects a horizontal cut in armed establishments everywhere by roundly thirty-three and a third per cent. It is the unfinished business of | navy and air force, view of the present situation demanding further increases in taxes io balance the Government’s budget. ‘The Congress will act in this matter of the foreign debts only after the fullest information has been submitted to it by thé President, along with his recommendations. What those recom- mendations will be is not yet known. It is known, however, that the Presi- | dent has repeatedly declared himself 4n opposition to the cancellation of the debts. Should he recommend & further suspension of the debt payments, Con- gress might listen to him, for some of the leaders now here, although pro- testing that they see no good from putting off the debt payments further, are still willing to "grant the debtor nations time if it is shown conclusively that they cannot pay without distress. The only possibility of Congress agreeing to further debt cancellation rests on the ability of the foreign na- | tions to show this country that it would be to the advantage of the American people. At Lausanne the powers agreed to scale down the huge reparations de- manded of Germany to about 10 per cent. But there was, apparently, string tied to this reduction, which is the willingness of the United States to remit the debts owed this country by the foreign powers. While many Amer- icans may look upon the action of the allied powers in reducing the repara- tions demanded of Germany as a wise | move, they still fail to see why they should foot the bill. There is doubt in the minds of many of the legislators whether the remis- sion of the debt payments owed this country wculd materially benefit the debtor nations. The payments to this country are small percentages of the | governmental budgets of these coun- tries, where huge parts of the govern- mental expenditures go for armament. —— e Robert Somers Brookings. Robert Somers Brookings died yes- terday, but it is difficult to think of his life as finished or of his work as com- pleted. Even at eighty-two years of age and in defective health, he did not rest; his mind marched on from one achieve- ment to another without pause. Of course, an eventual conclusion was in- evitable, but now that it has come, it has the quality of being premature. A native of Cecil County, Md., Mr. Brookings had little of what is called | “formal education.” Possibly the defi- ciency may have been an unconscious stimulation for the labors of his later years. But freedom to engage in com- mercial pursuits while yet a mere youth was a distirict advantage at the time. Before he was old enough to vote he was able to make an important place for himself in the business world of St. Louis. Beginning in the wooden- ware trade, he expanded his interests to include banking, transportation and real estate. For eighteen years he de- voted himself to creating a fortune, After that he took business less serl- ously, but he did not finally retire from commercial activity until 1896. That date marks the end of the first major phase of his long career. His new work lay in the field of higher education. He refounded and refinanced Washington University, and from 1897 to 1928 toiled to perfect the several branches of that institution. awaits another runner, ready to be and away-to s fresh start with the rival of his teammate. around this final lap, before race is ended, is necessary if | Under the terms of the Norris amend- |ment to the Constitution, which will | probably receive ratification by the | States before next Spring, the Presi- dent’s final lap would be considerably | shortened. 1If the Norris amendment | were in effect now the President's term |would end January 20, instead of | March 4, and the new Congress would | be preceding the President-elect into |office by seventeen days. And while the Norris amendment will eliminate ,some of the disadvantages of the so- |called lame-duck session, with an out- going President handicapped for three months by the knowledge that his suc- cessor must inherit the direction of new policies which the President, in | this short interval, may have to in- augurate, the present situation in Wash- ington emphasizes the distinct advan- tages of what has been called the “cool- ing-off” period—that interval between |the close of a heated election and the |March 4 change of administrations. | The debt question is only one of | several important matters that must‘ | receive immediate attention by the | President and the old Congress during | | its final short session. The increasing | deficit has made apparent the need for | changing the revenue bill, for the | revenues from new taxes levied last| | Spring will not provide a balanced | budget. There is an advantage in ! leaving the amendments of the revenue | bill to the men who framed the present | measure, and a distinet advantage in the fact that their proceedings will be relatively free of politics. In such a revolutionary change in the member- ship of Congress as that brought about by the last election it is just as well that time does remain for strict atten- tion to pressing business in advance of the temporary, but marked, disarrange- ments and dislocations accompanying the taking over of office by a new ad-*| ministration. ‘The President's final months in the White House will not be spent in idleness or retrospection. He has, as from the beginning of his stormy administration, a big job on his hands. .- | Beer racketeers are said to be laying | plans for special activities and in- creased prices for the next few months. The humane inclination to release the many prisoners convicted of liquor law violation may, after all, have to be fol- lowed with more or less deliberation. ——r————— Of course the general public would | like to listen in on a conference be- tween President Hoover and Gov. | Roosevelt. But the talk would be long and the funds for statesmanship by radio are by this time much depleted. There is ethical restraint even in an era described as intensely mercenary. | President-elect Roosevelt has had a bad | cold. What would the manufacturer not pay for the privilege of telling the world what cured it! —_—————— In all the*flurry about Samuel Insull nobody remembers about Ponzi, whose financial dealings, though ingenious, now appear like transactions in small change. —_——— However desirous of making goods take the place of money, no foreign ex- porter will be expected to take I. O. U.'s for his shipments, subject to cancella- tion at convenience. ——on— SHOOTING STARS. BY PHILANDER JOHNSON. Storm Subsides. Oh, politics is like & storm, which rages, He built new study halls, secured new endowments, developed new methods of teaching and research, and promoted in ecountless other ways the prosperity and standing of the school. The World War interfered with his program, but | he did not permit it to halt its ad- vancement. The emergency called him | to Washington. He served as chair-| man of the Price-fixing Committee of the War Industries Board and was a member of the Capital and Labor Com- mission. He was instrumental in the organization of the Institute for Gov- ernment Research, designed to increase | the efficiency and economy of the na- tional business administration. The institute at last was merged in the Brookings Institution, which he for- mally established in 1924. A conservative liberal, Mr. Brookings had a creative and critical bent, which was bound to find expression in literary form. It did so in a series of closely but generously reasoned books on eco- | Sorghum. then subsides. We listen to the howling and observe the winds and tides. We call each other dreadful names from “wildcats” down to “germs.” And now we find, ‘with great delight, we're all on speaking terms. We hear of retribution that's deservedly intense, And next the proposition is a courteous conference. Prosperity is near us now, the market man affirms. We are surely closer to it since we're all on speaking terms. Watchful of Advantage. “Everybody stood up during the cam- paign whenever the band played ‘The Star Spangled Banner,’” “Of course we did,” said Senator “There was never any know- ing when hostilities would start. And | a man couldn’t expect to defend him-| | self sitting down " | nomics and democracy, the last of | which appesred only a few months | since. The welfare of mankind was his that bracket he included everything human and helpful. But Mr. Brookings will be especially remembered, not only for the multitude of things he did him- self, but also for the myriad of things which he prompted and inspired others to do. He was the godfather and pa- tron of an army of young economists, These men and women will carry for- ward the torch which he has been obliged to relinquish. Perhaps that is one reason why it is difficult to Jud Tunkins says & racketeer always | says crime doesn’t pay, but maybe that's | theme from first to last, and vmun{becwu he wants to discourage com- petition. The European nations say They really do not wish to pay. We're sympathetic as can be, Becl\..'.!e, you see, no more do we. | Depression Talk. “Will you be at home, as usual, next'i Winter?” “I hope so,” answered Miss Cayenne, “although the way father keeps talking | think of him as gone from the world. about taxes and mortgages makes me THE EVENING STAR, WASHINGTON, D. C, WEDNESDAY, BY CHARLES E. Uncivilized Nature, we have been runner is to receive an advantageous | told so p«mnuw an irritating | humane way of being very Any one who has ever watched, for any certain length of time, an aquarium in operation lg:owl that this is more or less the truth. In the fish world the law is that the big ones u: the smaller ones, and 80 on up and down the entire scale. All that is necessary for one Creature to attack another is that the latter be enough smaller to permit its ready in- troduction into the digestive system. Often even this is not essential; if & fish can manage to seize the head, he 1s willing to part company with the tail after & time. * k% % The great danger, in the home aqua- rium, as many an enthusiast has found out, lies in the disparity in sizes of the various inmates. To put very small fishes in with much larger ones, especially the tropicals, as they are called, is to invite ready and instant murder. Consider the case of the newcomer to the aquarium world, who takes the strange and beautiful “angel fish” at their name. Surely such curious creatures would entirely live up to the popular name which has been wished upon them, he thinks. But Pterophyllum scalare, as science calls him, is by no means a mild fellow, and if a tiny “guppy” thoughtlessly is placed in the tank the chances are that it will scarcely hit the water before there is a flash of silver, and the “gup” will be gone. * ok kK ok This is a tragedy of the miniature watery world, none the less a tragedy because it happens in a mere slice of that vast world, enclosed in glass, and reposing quietly in a home. There is Nature, ladies and gentle- men, in all her glory, and in all her cruelty, her indifference, her calm ignoring of good,and evil. What happens in Nature is inevitable. ‘This is the greatest shock which the student of what used to be called, in the old days, natural philosophy, meets in his peering into the ways of the uni- versal mother. There is no release in her war. ‘There is no appeal. What is done, is done forever; and all man’s tears will not wash out a deed accomplished. * ok o 8o it is, if a human being, human thoughts, with some admixture of pity and love, rather thoughtlessly decides that the “gupples” ought to go into the larger tank with the “angels,” shining in their silver crossed with dark bars, and their extended dorsal fin, tinged with faint pink. e finds that there is no pity in this queer world of water, no love, no knowledge, even, in the sense of human knowledge, and pity, and love. Children sometimes call the “angel fish” the “up-and-down” fish, owing to the fact that it is taller than it is long, what with its dorsal fin and its two long “feelers” on its under side. There is nothing in the watery world quite like Pterophyllum scarlare, and those who investigate the miniature cosmos of the so-called tropical fishes never forget the sight of it. For sheer interest and beauty in the aquarium few fishes &unl x&. P The “angel fish” is an uncanny creature, showing more curiosity, per- haps, than any other thing which has S, It is this teeming curiosity, at all President Hoover returns to the White | House in an atmosphere well designed to make him forget his troubles. The | suddenness with which the war debts | have pranced onto the front page, ab- | sorbing Washington's interest to the exclusion of sll other topics, renders it easy for the President to plunge into his workaday activities free from tI emotions of chagrin and remorse which might otherwise oppress him. A man can always get his mind off his worries when he’s busy, and Herbert Hoover, in the debts affair, faces some of the busiest weeks of his whole executive career. Curiosity is at the boiling point, especially in that cross-section of Con- &l‘fil already in town, as to how far, any distance, the President will go in recommending leniency to Europe. Some insiders say that his personal predilection is to give the cause of re- vision a strong, courageous lead, mind- less of the consequences to himself. Others say that whatever Mr. Hoover's own debt inclinations may be, he will the causes of Democratic victory and Republican defeat last week. In the course of their unscrewing of the in- scrutable they've dug up a couple of terms familiar to all who are steeped in psychology, but are Greek to most mortals. The psychoanalysts say Hoover lost because he is an “introvert” and that Roosevelt won because he is an “extrovert.” Very broadly defined, an introvert is & person who lives self- centeredly unto himself in an atmos- phere of intelectnal self-sufficiency, shunning couxy -l as a general rule and deciding neariy all things for himself, An extrovert is a person more inclined to consider things, including his own interests, from the standpoint of the outside world and to court advice before comine to conclusions. Repub- lican politicians have always considered Herbert Hoover an introvert, although not all of them were on speaking terms with the word. The Presi- dent’s antipathy to mere politicians is proverbial. Many of his friends, look- ing back on the recent past, say it was his downfall. | * ok x Roosevell, cabinet makers are ad- vised to keep their eye on Nebraska's favorite Democratic son, Arthur F. Mullen, Omaha lawyer and national committeeman from Nebraska. Mr. Mullen was the Roosevelt floor man- ager at Chicago last Summer. He is the man given principal credit for ef- fecting the McAdoo-Garner California- Texas convention deal, whereby Gov. Roosevelt was nominated on the fourth ballot. The Roosevelt managers were more alarmed than they ever admitted that protracted balloting might doom the Governor. Mullen was for ending the agony with the least possible delay and was the go-between with Texas Delegation Leader 8am Rayburn in the offering of the vice presidential nom- ination to Speaker Garner. Upon as- | tween the heartless WASHINGTON OBSERVATIONS BY FREDERIC WILLIAM WILE. * Kk K x Now it's psychoanalysts who've tackled the of trying to X-ray NOVEMBER 16, 1932. . TRACEWELL. throws the track. He times manifested, which oObserver the 5 that this astound- is to forget T are small, but are real flsh::.'mn the same, which is just another way of saying that they know e. in, their panoply of light, flashing amid the waters and green growing things which make up their tiny world, one may be forgiven for attributing to them sentiments which they do not have, nor cah have, of course. * Kk % % ‘What delicate mouths they have, one thinks—surely they could not eat a very small “guppy,” even the smallest sample. Alas for human optimism! Into the tank go the “gups,” as- tonished at their summary transfer in the bowl of a teaspoon. Let no veteran handler of these creatures declare that one ought to have known better. Experience is a great teacher, here as_elsewhere. Into the tank go the “guppies,” then. At the same moment the “angel fish” stop their sedate wafting to and fro, as is one of their customs. One of them darts forward like a flash of light, and engulfs, in a sud- denly distended and, for it, enormous mouth, the first of the hapless “gup- pies. Only the tiny fringed tail protrudes. R Frantic efforts with a small ladle retrieve the trio lefi, but the fourth is doomed, and shortly its headless carcass floats out. Not a trace of enthusiasm flickers in those pink-rimmed eyes. The cannibal is just as colorful, just as unusual, just as interesting as ever. Now the other “angels” are dashing about, evidently scenting fresh food and wishing to have their share of it. ‘Their circular bodies dart here and there, almost vanishing, to human eyes, as ul:'l’r turn head-on, they are so thin in their transparency. Their feelers trail excitedly in the water, doubled up for speed’s sake. But the “food” is gone. The rescued “guppies” are back in their own bowl, cowering behind a spray of anacharis. They are eafe, but they do not know it. * KX % Before any reader depiores this stale of nature, and felicitates himself upon being & member of the civilized tribe of man, let him think a little about man- kind’s wars. Perhaps there is more relation be- eating for food which occurs in nature, and the or- ganized slaying of man by man, than appears at first sight. aybe nations are just different sorts of fish, which ordinarily live together fairly well, but have no use for each other at bottom. Big fish eat little fish; and little ones eat those still smalier. Only by putting fish of comparatively equal size together can they swim about unmolested, and each pursue its normal life habits. . Disarmament, naval ratios—there are man-made equivalents, similar in in- tent. Peace is worked out in the min- iature world of the aquarium simply be- cause no one inhabitant is small enough to be harmed. Or, another way of put- ting it, simply because none is large enough to eat the others. Perhaps mankind, for all its boasted efficiency, knows no better way. close to that of the presidency of the church, now held by Heber J. Grant. It is said to be within the range of pos- sibilities that Senator Smoot will eventually succeed Awue John A. Witsoe at London. ‘ashington & crammed full of high officials who owe their places to Smoot influgnce. Most hose | of them expect to desert the scene soon after he does next year. With Senator- elect Thomas’ arrival in Congress, Utah will have an all-Mormon delegation Lere. * K K x New York newspapers are an advertisement stating that one of the largest producers of fine wines in France offers to a8 responsible corpora- tion or individual the exclusive repre- sentation of its products, either for particular States or for the whole United States. Harry Le Roy Jones of | the District of Columbia bar has just submitted an interesting proposal to the French National Foreign Trade lcouncil. He suggests that the French hesitate to commit himself to any policy | government ht go farther and do for which the Republican party later | worse than to offer to pay its American on might have to pay the damages. | war debt, in whole or «in part, with the ‘oducts of French vineyards when on of liquor again is legalized by this country. - Mr. Jones sees no | try, German reason why British whisky, and Czechoslovakian beers, Italian wines and the booze of other debtor countries shouldn't be utilized by them to square accounts with the United States Treasury. ¥ ook ok Nof in the election aftermath causes liveller speculation than the wholly unexpected slenderness of the Socialist vote for Norman Thomas. It | does not look as if he would roll up much more than 600,000 votes. That is only about twice as many as he received for President in 1928 and some 300,000 below Eugene V. Debs’ peak total in 1912 (897,000). Socialists blithely cal- culated that Thomas’ po?uhr vote in 1932 would be anywhere from 1,600,000 up. Lack of funds, especially for radio broadcasts, is ascribed by the Socialists as the main cause of their poor show- ing, altl they t the grouch against mendous “protest” vote for Thomas. It was just one of those things that didn't come off. *xox % “Dave” W. Mulvane, who has just passed away in Kansas, was for more than 30 years a member of the Re- publican National Committee and & G. O. P. wheelhorse of the front rank. A Yale man and lawyer, most of his Washington friends note with surprise that Mulvane left a fortune of $1,000,- 000, for he was one of the most modest @nd unassuming of men. Roosevelt, Taft, Harding, Coolidge and Hoover all esteemed his sage political counsel. He might have had high Federsl office at almost any time during the quar- ter of a century, but preferred the game he loved the litics. * % . Four 3 Irish names will be adde wflg‘!un&nlte roster after March 4—Murphy of Iowa, Duffy of ‘Wisconsin, Lonergan of Connecticut and parties would amass a tre- | Panics, Joys of the road woul and great excitement would out of their gasoline-saturated e. idea of cutting down the beauti- shade trees in order to widen the streets and then to allow parking all| .n‘lfimhlomnny; it is silly and very Referring to your correspondents | who#e letters were published in The with low salaries would be better off without cars and traffic conditions would be'improved thereby. Any hard- working woman who lives between Cal- vert Street and Klingle Bridges would do well to dispose of her Ford and se- cure & plane. Perhaps a hangar could | be found for her after she comes down out of the air. ‘The streets of the most beautiful city |in the world being transformed into a | public garage is tragic. The men who clean the streets are unable to perform | their jobs in a thorough manner be- | cause of the parked cars, and the | streets are acquiring an accumulation | of filth, on account of dead automobiles, that will be & menace to the city. Human beings were not permitted to park indefinitely on the public reser- allowed to hog the city streets. After exposure all night the peace and silence of the frosty mornings are violated by the most awful noises and the air is polluted with vile odors when the cars are made to start. This is because they h!“:t not been properly protected all night. « These few remarks do not apply to all of our fellow citizens who have cars, | but if your number is among those | mentioned please try to do better. CHARLES J. SIMPSON. s Washington’s Canals. To the Editor of The Star: Regarding canals within the Dis- trict of Columbia, according to the rec- ords there were at least four distinct and separate canals in operation at dif- ferent periods within said District. His- torical writers on the old canals are prone to mix them somewhat, and for that reason I am sending you the fol- lowing information for your valuable newspaper. Although I have consider- able data, taken from the records, con- cerning each canal, I will not go into much detail concerning them at this time. However, I am always willing to | assist any one. The first canal within the District was the Potomac , in which OtorfiuWuhlnmn was interested, and an" oll%v ::h :rl: early date, before the y gton was thought of, makg the nave on of the Pohm:: River possible. % .5 canal below the Falls was on th: District side of the river and above the Falls was in Vir- ginia. The next canal was the Wasa- ington Canal, which was begun after the city was surveyed in 1791, and was filled up about 1875. This canal fol- lowed the course of Tiber Creek, along B street north from Seventeenth street to the foot of Capitol Hill, where it turned southeestwardly and emptied in the Eastern Branch at the foot of New Jersey avenue. The third canal was the Chesapeake | and Ohio Canal, or the Georgetown | Canal, which was begun within the | District in 1828, but not finished for some time later. This canal is still to | be seen in Georgetown below M street, | and flowed into the Potomac at Seven- | teenth and B streets northwest, now Constitution avenue, where it joined the Washington L. The fourth canal was the James Creek Canal, which followed the eourse of James Creek on the east side of the Arsenal Grounds and was built after the Civil War. It is not shown on Boschke survey map of 1857 to 1861 of the city, although it was the original intention to this canal in" 1792, in the plan of the city by Andrew Ellicott of that date | ‘The James Creek Canal was in exist- ence and in operation up in the cit: 88 far as L street southwest as late o LW?, and ":’s Md llltthflme for co- - eying sal an vel, principall; into the city. i s Yours truly, ARTEMAS C. HARMON. ) carving | Altogether for Better Times To the Editor of The Star: That was & splendid eulogy of Presi- dent Hoover in your editorial of No- vemher 10. He deserves every word of praise you uttered for his noble fight for_the’ preservation of American prin- ciples of business and government. Even the millions who voted for his op- ponent will now indorse your appraise~ ment of our Chief Executive. Swept out of office by the resistless tide of public opinion, he still has the supreme satisfaction of realizing that he “kept the faith,” and that the less in- heritance of sound princi; of indus- , [finance and government which our forefathers established are still in- tact and a working basis for any pro- gram. of business recovery. President Hoover, in oonztatulalmg the winning candidate, promptly pledges his support to all such efforts. In giving credit where credit is due plank adopted by the Democratic party at its Chicago convention last June. That was the first ray of light in the gloom and despair that marked the low point in security prices. Whoever wrote that plank is entitled to the everlasting gratitude of all citizens, regardless of party. It checked the reckless efforts of the radicals in Con- gress to plunge this country into the wave of flat money which would have added untold misery to all our other 33.'5;1 h:vlu:vut that reassurance fear ve developed a money panic, to have accelerated the security and bank which then threatened our en- tlr}e‘ econnt;l:!c life. ow that the struggle for party leadership is over and the vote so nearly let us all join President Hoover and give wholehearted support to every effort to restore prosperity and happiness in this great resourceful country. )ln%ubt Mr. Roosevelt will choose cabinet of able men who will cor ers and thus enable them to go forward | in the great work of giving employment to all who need jobs. With everybody | busy, many of the problems that now | vex or perplex us would fade away. . EDWIN MEAD, Chevy Chase, Md. ——— Cotton in Fashion Show. Prom the Nashville Banner. ‘The Southern Textile Exposition now in ptogress at Greenville is making forcible and interesting proof of the in- Star of November 4: Government clerks | Record vations, but the modern juggernaut is | 0O Q. When | Travelers’ Ald Soclety started?—A. B. let us not forget the sound money - for réturn postage. Do not use t rds. Address your letter to ge Evening _Star formation ¢ Bureau, Prederic J. X , Washing- ton, D. C. Q. What horse t )'.‘In greatest | Frank G. Menke’s All-Sports Book says that Broomstick, who | died in 1931 at the age of 31, is the greatest. He was owned b{ the Whit- ney family. He sent first foals to in 1909. Up to the end of the 1031 racing season his offspring had won over 1,800 races in the United States and money totaled over $2,600,000. This does not include earnings of his | offspring who went to Europe and In-| dia, beginning in 1914, and won many | races. THe grand total for Broomstick in all countries is conservatively esti- mated at about $3,000,000. Q. By whom is the Treasurer of the United Stdtes appointed?—P. W. A. He is appointed at the pleasure of the President, and the byn‘ m Q. What is the average family size in the United States according to the mehtgn report of the last census?— A. According to the census of 1930, the number of families in the United States totaled 29,980,146. The popula- tion per family was 4l. and by whom was the| A. The first non-sectarian committee | orgdnized to do travelers’ aid work | grew out of the plans for the St. Louis | | Exposition in 1904. Miss Grace Hoad- ley Dodge, one of the great leaders of the Young Women's Christian Associa- tion, saw a growing need for placing the unco-ordinated work in New York City on such a co-operative and non- sectarian basis &s was carried t! at the St. Louis Fair, and in 1908 she brought about the formation of a com- mittee of Protestant, Catholic and Jew- ish women to make a survey of the work in that city. The resulting non- sectarian, non-commercial Travelers’ Ald Soclety of the City of New York thus the first A. The Governme: package of 20 cigarettes is 6 cents. Q. After Columbus discovered the &funummu: A" Coconuts in the husk’ will indefinitely if in z e for 20 or 30 years. Q. Which first?—M. M. B. A. KDKA of Pittsburgh, Pa., is gen- erally known as the eer broadcast- ing station, inasm as it broadcast programs long before Government censes were necessary. It is saiZ emat Harding-Cox presidential returns were broadcast from this No- vember 4, 1920. The first program broa license, however, in this to the Westinghouse Co. at Springfleld, Mass,, September 15, 1921. Q. How did the round-the-world flight by airplane compare in time with Magellan’s trip?—N. M. S. o3 STl oue o ours 51 minutes; a mardtannng 15,128,- mile flight.” The flight was made from June 23 to July 1, 1931. Magellan's round-the-world voyage was made in 1519 to 1522. The trip took 1,083 days. islands the east coast of America, who was the first to come to the main- | land?—P. S. | the coast of Florida, April 2, 1513. He book seller (through old did not know that it was the mainland. He supposed it was a large island. | which the Indians called Bimini, but | called beca: named the region he discovered | Q. Why is the essential oil of orange flowers called netoli?—C. W. i A It Il“-m for an Italian who — | Q. How many vessels comprised the fleet that took the world cruise in Roosevelt’s administration?—J. P. | __A. In all, there were 16 battleships, | including the Connecticut, Cul- Suez Canal. The tance traveled was about 42,227 miles. Q. How long will & eoconut still in late Latin sationarius). seller or publisher use he occupled a station the market or elsewhere. q How is blue coal tinted bluer— " A harmless dye 1s added as the A coal comes over the lip screen into the freight cars. L d in J vl Ban 5 P ol D which is earved iy B ich o’u early Byzantine m&wtm !myll: Biggest Lame Duck Session May Say Historic Farewell The public looks with satisfaction on contingent 5 & sessin. of Comgrass s conf L3 18 likely to have the historic &flflufi of volc‘unuurnentwln iture time. The Norris amendment has been rati- fied by nearly 20 States, and with the approach of January sessions of Leg- islatures, it is expected that the job will be completed, and an awkward system will pass into the discard. “The amendment will be ‘effective,” says the Youngstown Vindicator, “when it is laimed that three-fourths of the tes have ratified, and theresdfter wil in Was] as its predecessors. The ess elected now will not assemble until Jani 1, 1934, if the amend- ment is instead of in Decem- ber of next year, and there will be no more short sessions. The election of a Congress 13 months before convening has been a question before the country for some yun, and at last it bids fair b} for sessions appropriation bills, with the intention thereby of forcing a special session of fiheknew C%!nwrm." and '»hl:l "d'hllw luck’ members are frequently given Federal appointments—one method b which a President may throu measures which he favors but which would pmhnhl; not be new Congress.” As sion, the Boise Idahdy Staf clares that “many vital issues are in- volved” and add$:~«The ridiculous part about it all the men in the Senate and the House of Representatives who will vote the measures—measures affecting ever{ cit- izen in the United Stat be men who have been defeated for re-election, or who have not t re-election. It is {ntflym( to conl late the fact that the ‘lame duck’ session of will soon be a thing of the past.” * ok x % “The country has been waiting a long time for this amendment,” states the Buffalo Evening News. “The resclution for it had been passed six times by the Senate and twice by the House—but al- . ‘The eagerness which lej tures have shown in approving ff is that a large number of | the “was in the ;t;nnmd ‘That neces- to con- tinue to function—it was no easy mat- ter to secure adoption of the Norris amendment. Public opinion strongly supported the amendment. Certain legislative leaders—like the late Speaker were able to hold up its adoption From the szgman with which the Legislatures which have met in the interval since . the ad of the amendment have proceeded to ratify, it is safe to say that the 1 will not have serious opposition ratification when the Legislatures meet in January.” * ¥ ¥ ¥ “As the ‘lame duck’ members beginning next month, they will "t ness one State after another ve to eliminate their kind from n;fin;.d_ eral Government,” says the Times-Union, while: the Baltimore Sun advises that “the first be transacted by the coming® I tive sessions in the Btates, the first day they le, tion of the l‘;:'l ¥ “maberr: lorm go‘l:ee:!mmm nominating conven- be moved from June to 4 settled - the campaign were meaningless, as influence on the result wumee’: B Sking & yeur 13 250 - clection And Insuguration. - With some of the delay chopped off by the ‘lame duck’ amendment at one end, as much P Sl BT * nom] esting.” in the - ion of the Lowell !v?n‘ln( lelde:p"‘%v 'f;: vtl;’:ther the proposal for lengthen- presidential term to_six eight years and limiting the office to single term will ever be brought for- ward seriously. There is reason to sup- pose that it would enable the Nation’ or - ation’s dicates that early next year it will have | Executive to free himself from at least the necessary 36 votes to incorporate it nsiderations in the Constitution as the twentieth Egfi':;kn:{htzemg‘%rwm ati amendment.’ welfare. “The new Congress,” according to the Hartford Times, “will hold but one ses- surance that Garner would take second | McCarran of Nevada. They're all | crease of the number of uses of cotton It would at least relieve a the Geneva Conference. Why not fin- |\ 0 o may be considered dead whose | afraid there isn't going to be any|pjace, the deal ensued, and Roosevell | Democrats. With the two Whishes | which have been accomplished by the %1::1 L:eth:e lcouo(m: :ptr;:gj: ;’1: ml]]! v;'},"f of the necessity of inferrupting onerous dan 12 influence continues to live. | home.” was put over on the next ballot. Mr | (Montana . anc Massachusetts), men | elaborate researches by Federal and |cing cr ime o ion DS o] | dutfes of office to enter into a_cam- - 2L, —_— Mullen stands high in the law and proud to trace their ancestry to the | State governments and by textile lead- budgets. While this transition will paign for re-election and the country Germany remains an illustrious ex- A i ’ | wAl problems,” said Hi Ho, the sage | ranks in the cabinet gossip as 8 Roose- | Emerald Isle now: achieve unprecedented | ers and as the result of the intensive seem a somewhat lean period for the mh t{he n:::‘mm m‘: "u;urhuy . andslide which resembled a po-| o o o LT e alike in one respect, | Velt choice for Attorney General He | representation in the - United States campaign of education directed Along |new o RNt & il b hraety ineyitably comes case of ample of capacity for. starting trouble jitical skid of huge proportions has na”"‘c IRA%wD. K8 W “ | has been attorney general of Nebraska | Senate. that line by organizations in the textile | ro m"“""‘, oy hange the legislagivy | @ Presidential election évery four years. without ability to finish it. | prevented Henry Ford from keeping his | 1f you make a slight error at the be- | ang won national renown at the bar (Copyright, 1032, field and the press of the South. | activity of e | Representa- i SR hand firmly and courageously on the| 8ning of a calculation, the more | nine years ago with his successful ar- ~— e One of the drawing cards of the Congress and the Debts. ! The American Congress, and not the | President, will have the final decision | I the matter of foreign debt suspen- sion or debt reduction. Individual mem- bers of the Senate and House now in ‘Washington, Republican and Demo- eratic, have expressed themselves hos- tile to any further reduction of the debts owed this country by the foreign nations. The Congress itself, when it put through a resolution authorizing the Hoover one-year moratorium en these debts, wrote into the resolution language which declared clearly against cancellation of the debts or any part|of his administration. The nature of | talks like de most benefit dey got out of them. Nor do the members of Con- | this work might be likened to the finz!|de trip was gittin® industrial wheel. e Much Work to Be Done, Bidding good-by to friends and ad- mirers in Glendale, Calif., a few days ago, President Hoover reminded them that “the majority of the people have decided to intrust the Government to & new sadministration. The political campaign is over.” The campaign is over, but for the President, returning this day to Wash- ington, & great deal of work must be packed into the three and a half months that remain before the close diligently you labor, the further away you get from the answer.” | Hard Work, The candidate no longer spesks In phrases long and nice. He'll he engaged for several weeks In listening to advice. | He must be patient, though he hears ; The same thing more than twice. His hardest duty, it appears, Is listening to advice. ¢+ “De folks dat’s been goin’ to Europe gument before the United States Su- reme Court in Meyer vs. Nebrasks. t was one of the cases in which the right of a citizen to educate his chil- dren in private schools of his own de- nominational choice was vindicated by the Supreme Court. case was on a rpwllh the Oregon litigation in .n.&'h the Ku Klux Klan was worsted in the Supreme Court. * k% ¥ at Reed Smoot is going to do\after | Utzh gives him a ticket of leave in March is a matter of lively speculation at Washington, where he has lived and worked for 30 years. Senator Smoot is the ranking -ipostle of the Mormon ck:urch. mnyp&nk that the -hurch, so often,” said Uncle Eben, “acts an’ o homesick an’ -*m.mmwd MM*hmhmmm'M'wontflh', row that he is freed from political duty, will call on him to do some_ apostle- ing. The leadership of the European mission of the Latter Day Saints is one of the plums of Mormonism, ranking Direct Action. From the Boston Herald. disarmament we af Paraguay are actuslly trying to do it to each other. e A Sure Fire. From the Oil City Derrick. ‘The public utllity probe being con- ducted in Pennsylvania seems o be reasonably safe, Two men who are being investigated are both dead. Tsiils Bain Cliods: Prom the Cleveland News. Story of Samuel Insull that he now has no resources except a pension of $18,000 a may_ not suggest the o0 = T Tel ; fashion show which is an annual fea- ture of these expositions will be 35 modeled costumes worn by Greenville girls. In connection with the exposition of the textile division of the American Society of Mechanical Engi- neers and of the Southern Textile As- to the common objective of preventing a continuance of the heavy surplusage of the cotton crop are being invoked. One is to in- crease the consumption by enlarging the | uses for the staple; the other is to duce the acreage. ‘The acreage was reduced 10 per_cent in 1931, and by an equal amounf® year, so that there has been a total re- duction in two years of one-fifth. The mlcthn has dropped from 16,000,000 two years ago to 11,000,000 this ’“fl-mmmmhmwu re- | they this | problem, particularly as the purchasing tives more promptly in line with the verdict of the voters at the polls.” “The long interval between election, inauguration and the opening of the new Congress,” remarks the Scranton to his year, however, is almost confined States. An actual increase India, t] the United in the output in Russia is certain. toward the solution of the surplusage power of the American will in- crease with the mmm‘:oprl.m of The Great Chinese Change, From the Oklshoms Oity Duily Oklahomen. Modern Mary’s Little Lamb. From the Helena Indevendent. If the uses of cotton should be ex-| Himalayan can run 40 miles tended in the next five-year ',‘Lm.. as | an hour, The would have had to | have been in the last, this factor | travel as fast as that to follow Mary * | in the situation will contribute heavily | nowadays. e Russian Resolutions. From the Roanoke Times. 3 the Nation. g Returns from Russia agree that hm;c::;umeumy.mn:-'m. Soviet, is m-a“w&msu disp! T powers of Tecovery even 3’ than any major industries. 0 do